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I have seen no evidence to date that supports the theory that Israel created Hamas.
Former Israeli officials such as Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who was the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s. Segev later told a New
York Times reporter that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a “counterweight” to the secularists and leftists of the
Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat (who himself referred to Hamas as “a creature of Israel.”)
“The Israeli government gave me a budget,” the retired brigadier general confessed, “and the military government gives to the mosques.”
“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than
two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009. Back in the mid-1980s, Cohen even wrote an official report to his superiors warning them not to
play divide-and-rule in the Occupied Territories, by backing Palestinian Islamists against Palestinian secularists. “I … suggest focusing our
efforts on finding ways to break up this monster before this reality jumps in our face,” he wrote.
They didn’t listen to him. And Hamas, as I explain in the fifth installment of my short film series for The Intercept on blowback, was the
result. To be clear: First, the Israelis helped build up a militant strain of Palestinian political Islam, in the form of Hamas and its Muslim
Brotherhood precursors; then, the Israelis switched tack and tried to bomb, besiege, and blockade it out of existence.
While this information has been accessible for quite some time, no one has explained it as effectively as our own Ron Paul back in the day. He
revealed how the United States and Israel played a role in the creation of Hamas as a countermeasure against Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian political
leader and chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
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And what would you have Israel do? Nothing?
Israel has to resolve the mistake of supporting and funding terrorism but supporting moderate PA and Palestinian civilians.
Here again, all I hear from the pro-Hamas crowd is how bad Israel is, but not a peep about
Pro-Hamas? I mean where did you get that from? Lucid Dreaming? Hamas is a terror organization, and we all know that.
what Israel has done in the past to foster peace, or the atrocities suffered by Israel on 10/7.
On this day in May 1948, up to 200 Palestinians were massacred by Israeli troops in the coastal village of Tantura, located 35 kilometres south of
Haifa. It was one of the 64 Palestinian coastal villages on the road between Tel Aviv and Haifa, of which only two remain today, Furaydis and Jisr
Al-Zarka. The rest were ethnically cleansed, as were hundreds of other villages, towns and cities elsewhere in occupied Palestine.
A week after David Ben-Gurion, the executive head of the World Zionist Organisation, declared the establishment of the State of Israel, the small
coastal village of Tantura became the scene of one of the worst massacres carried out by Zionist colonial forces against the indigenous Palestinian
population. The massacre took place against the backdrop of what the Palestinians call the Nakba, the catastrophe which saw 750,000 Palestinians,
nearly three quarters of the population, being driven out of their homes by Zionist paramilitary groups. The catastrophe is now the longest running
refugee crisis in the modern era.
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Social media users have widely published a video in which an officer of the Zionist regime talks about Tantura's murder, crime and rape, as if he were
telling an entertaining story.
This Zionist officer said in a video that was republished by the "Saudioun Ma'al-Aqsa" account on Twitter: "Tantura was a rich village with beautiful
houses, a soldier rapped a 16 old Palestinian girl, we were with a very brutal man who simply put villagers in cages and killed them.
They gathered all the men and ordered them to sit on the ground, and one of the soldiers came with a machine gun and fired at them.
He added: This is the same thing that happened in the massacre of al-Tantura, the soldiers took a flamethrower and burned the residents, it was
terrible.
We were forbidden to talk about his actions and I didn't tell anyone; because it's a big scandal and I didn't want to talk about it.
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Tell me more about fostering peace and illegal settlements on seized lands from Palestinians that has never stopped.